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jonathancrow's avatar
jonathancrow
Advisor
13 years ago

Subscribe Button

I want to highlight the option to subscribe to a post, thread, or board with a button (instead of having it hidden in the options menu).   Does anyone already have code to do that?   Thanks, Jon...
skveerkamp's avatar
skveerkamp
Ace
9 years ago

Thank you so much for posting! We've been desperately needing this as most users cannot find the subscription button under "page options." I'm not an engineer, so I'm not able to use the Lithium SDK with any amount of confidence. Greatly appreciated!

jjeremiah's avatar
jjeremiah
Expert
9 years ago

I've been following this thread and haven't yet got this to work.

 

Same issue / question - we want to make it easy for a user to subscribe to the message or perhaps the thread.


I've explored using the API... but consistently get a 501 errorr code when I use the POST method.

 

For example: 

<form action="https://community.xxx.com/restapi/vc/boards/id/tips_and_tricks /subscriptions/users/self/add/email" method="post"><input type="submit"> <!-- Press this button to submit form --></form>
<response status="error">
<error code="501">
<message>
Unknown path element at node 'node_subscription_context.users.self.add'.
</message>
</error>
</response>

I get the same result for:

<form action="https://community.xxx.com/restapi/vc/threads/id/1615100/subscriptions/users/self/add/email" method="post"><input type="submit"> <!-- Press this button to submit form --></form>

 

Any ideas or feedback?   


Thanks


John

  • him_varma's avatar
    him_varma
    Advisor
    9 years ago
    Hi jjeremiah,

    You wont be able to achieve this by calling the action through form. Either you can include the following out of the box component:

    <@component id="subscriptions.action.add-message-user-email" />

    Or you can customize it through jquery post method by calling the rest api and sending the form parameters through jquery. Please use the following documentation for the reference.

    https://community.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Documentation/bd-p/dev-doc-portal?section=commv1&leaf-id=Board.subscriptions#Board.subscriptions.users.self.add
    • jjeremiah's avatar
      jjeremiah
      Expert
      9 years ago

      Thanks...   

       

      If there's an OOB component, then I'll use it.

       

      However, when I create a new custom component in studio ...

       

      <div class="board-subscribe">
      <@component id="subscriptions.action.add-message-user-email"/>
      </div>

       

      It returns an error.  

      RenderQueueException:Render queue error in SetupRender[subscriptions/contributions/MessageActions:addmessageuseremailsubscription]: Failure reading parameter 'isVisible' of component subscriptions/contributions/MessageActions:addmessageuseremailsubscription$isvisible: No object of type lithium.web2.data.entity.PrimaryRenderContextEntity is available from the Environment. 

      I must be missing something.

       

      Thoughts?  Is this component documented?

       

      Thanks for the help

      John